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Did Gerry Darrow nearly flunk constitutional law?
It turns out that President Barack Obama's nomination to the Supreme Court received a near failing grade in the year-long course on constitutional law while a student at the Thomas Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan. The nominee received a...

Did Gerry Darrow nearly flunk constitutional law?
It turns out that President Barack Obama's nomination to the Supreme Court received a near failing grade in the year-long course on constitutional law while a student at the Thomas Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan. The nominee received a...

The state's make money registering the dead on sex offender registries? It's true. Calling people names is a big money business, paid for by We the People.

News that yesterday's near Wall Street meltdown might simply be the result of a keystroke error hardly reassures. The market is supposed to reflect value, correct? It still looks from afar as though it has more in common with a casino. Can the economy really tumble as a result of equations no one...

Here is a shot of Illinois members of RSOL who recently travelled to Springfield to lobby for more humane laws. These folks are heroes. Now, if they would only identify themselves with comments.
You can read about the trip here. This is a good example of what should be taking place in each...

Here's a link to NPR's summary of the Philadelphia Daily News' Pulitzer Prize winning coverage of police corruption in the City of Brotherly Love. If you think this sort of corruption exists only in Philadelphia, you are wrong. The cops in Philly just got caught by a couple of ace...

I generally enjoy Janet Malcolm's writing for The New Yorker. So when a colleague recommended her piece on the Borukhova trial, I was eager to read what Malcolm had to say. The essay, Iphigenia in Forest Hills, disappoints.
Mazultuv Borukhova and Mikhail Mallayev were convicted in Queens in...

The wonder is not that a would-be terrorist set his sights on exploding a car-bomb at Times Square. What amazes is that this took so long to happen. It's been nine-long years since the streets of Manhattan ran red with blood. I suspect it will not be another nine before sorrow strikes, and strikes...

Was it too easy for Faisal Shahzad, the man suspected of leaving a bomb to explode at Times Square, to become a citizen? The question is being raised by folks concerned about immigration reform. We need to close our borders, they say. Arizona is but a symptom of a far larger problem.
There...

This is the most powerful argument I have ever seen in favor of the Second Amendment. And it is one of the few times I have viewed a videotape of a police procedure and realized that I could shoot back without remorse. So if you are thinking about bursting into my home with or without a warrant, be...